1. What effect did the Taliban's tears have on Parvanna?

2. How has Mrs. Weera changed Parvanna's family's life? Use details from the text to support your answer.

3. How does Mrs. Weera's attitude help her deal with adversity (difficulties)? Write about a time where your attitude helped you deal with adversity.

4. Explain how Parvanna bargined to get a better price for her Shalwar Kameez.


1. The Taliban's tears made Parvanna feel sad and it made her miss her father more and more, she wanted her father with her at that moment and whispered in the sky, "Father, come back to us!" (P.82).

2. Mrs. Weera changed their life by making sure Parvana goes to work and makes money , makes sure the children get looked after by Nooria and that the house is cleaned and there is food made and helps them recover from the loneliness of her father gone and will make mother happier and make sure everyone is okay.

3.Mr. Weera's attitude helps her with difficulties because she can lecture people into doing things.
My attitude helped me a time when this guy ( we knew him ) was being rude and was swearing at my grandma outside next to her building and he wouldn't leave her alone so I got mad and started yelling at him and gave him a lecture about how rude he was being and her wouldn't listen so I slapped him across the face a few times with the back of my hand and told him to leave her alone, he left her alone and never came back.The last time we heard about him, he fell of a fourth floor belcony and broke his leg.

4.Parvanna bargained to get a better price for her Shalwar Kameez by starting with a high price and lowering it to a little bit higher price than the customer's each time the customer said a a lower price.